Topic: Mediterranean

Summer Seasonables: Eggplant-Shallot Stew With Whole Wheat Couscous

This week, I picked up both eggplant and shallots at the farmer’s market. While searching for ways to cook the eggplant (I’m very bad at eggplant), I came a recipe for eggplant and shallot stew, which sounded so good I wanted to make it immediately. Of course, I was missing almost all ingredients aside from shallots and eggplant, for the recipe (from Eating Well magazine), so here is my own riff on it (à la raisins, cashews and whole-wheat couscous, and minus what sound like complicated spice-grinding and mustard-seed-popping processes). More »

Prince Albert of Monaco Officially Engaged to Charlene Wittstock, South African Olympic Swimmer

It’s a royal engagement at least four years in the making. It was just announced that Prince Albert II of Monaco is engaged to longtime girlfriend, Charlene Wittstock, who’s a former South African Olympic swimmer. The couple has a 20-year … More »

Heart Attack Survivor? Stay Healthy With a Mediterranean Diet

Their economy may have recently collapsed, but those Greeks still know how to eat. New research from the University of Athens shows that eating a Mediterranean diet not only helps people who want to prevent heart disease, but also those … More »